NAME
Acme::Roman - Do maths like Romans did
SYNOPSIS
use Acme::Roman;
print I + II; # III, of course!
DESCRIPTION
The Roman Empire ruled over a large part of the ocidental world for a
long time, probably too long for the conquested people.
They were finally won and there are some who say it was because they
could not do mathematics. Such liars!
This module redeems Perl with the ungratefully forgotten Roman numbers,
which now can find their glory again.
INSPIRATION
That module was inspired by
Ruby Quiz - Roman Numerals (#22)
http://rubyquiz.com/quiz22.html
See the hightlighted solution at the Quiz Summary in the same page.
EXAMPLES
Take a look at eg/roman.pl in this distribution for an amusing example.
BUGS
Acme::Roman does not like numbers greater than 3999. Why would you like
such big numbers?
Only knows how to do addition, subtraction and multiplication. What else
do you think that Romans did with such a lovely numeric system?
Ranges (like I..X) don't work :(
The actual implementation does a bit of brute force when defining empty
prototypes so that barewords are resolved into subroutine calls. I don't
know if it can be fixed.
If you find a bug, tell Julio Caesar from a respectful and safe
distance. (He's always looking for entertainment at the circus. And
lions are ever hungry.) If you prefer, you might file a report at
http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Acme-Roman or via e-mail at
bug-Acme-Roman@rt.cpan.org. (Ok, CPAN RT now likes me again.)
AUTHOR
Adriano R. Ferreira
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2007, 2008 Adriano R. Ferreira
The Acme::Roman module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.